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KENNY DALGLISH hailed Daniel Agger as one of the best central defenders in the Premier League after Liverpool FC’s first back to back clean sheets of the season.

But the frustrated Reds boss also labelled his side’s overall display as “unacceptable.”

Agger’s last two Premier League starts – after missing a month through injury – have coincided with two clean sheets, including a first of the season at Anfield on Saturday.

And Dalglish declared: “Daniel’s a fantastic player but it wasn’t just down to Daniel that we’ve had two clean sheets.

“He’s a fantastic player and he’s probably as good as anyone else in his position in the Premier League.

“He’s comfortable in possession and he’s a very good defender as well.

“He’s a top defender, a top player . . . he played left-back for us at Stoke as well and did very well.

“It’s great to have him back and I hope his fitness remains as it is for a long time.”

But Agger’s display was a rare positive on a frustrating afternoon for the Reds who were held for the fourth time this season at home.

“We have to understand, realise and accept that that level of performance is not acceptable,” rapped Dalglish.

“The performance was disappointing. Swansea played the way we would have expected them to play, but we certainly never played the way we expected ourselves to play.”

Andy Carroll blazed the best chance of the match against the crossbar from six yards with the match only seven minutes old and Dalglish added: “The chance goes in early doors and it would have changed the complexion of the game, but at the end of the day, as well as giving credit to Swansea, we have to look at ourselves and expect better performances than that.

“Anything that we were good at, we certainly didn’t do too much of today. We usually do passing and movement, but there wasn’t a great deal of that, when we got it back we gave it away quickly and most of the times when we gave it back to them they got up the pitch quite well.

“They had one chance second half when the boy put it over, Pepe had a save, but we have to look at ourselves.

“The problems that are there are problems that we can solve ourselves.

“We’ll sort it behind closed doors. We can pass it a lot better than that. That’s certainly one thing we can work on, but we work on it every week.”

Dalglish defended the home fans after being asked about a smattering of boos at the final whistle.

“I don’t think they did that,” he rapped.

“I never heard them. How many then? Two people? More than that? Okay, three?

“I don’t think so. I bet there was less booing than never booed. Correct?

“Okay, so if that’s government then you’re in.”

His Swansea counterpart, Brendan Rodgers, paid tribute to the home fans after his side was magnanimously applauded off the Anfield pitch at the final whistle.

“I must pay my respects to the Anfield supporters,” said Rodgers. “I don’t think there will be too many teams who walk off here and get a round of applause from the Anfield support and that marked the level of our performance today.

“They were obviously frustrated with their own team at times, but that was also a mark of how our performance was going.”